Words of a Poet » Rumi Poems http://wordsofapoet.com I took the road less traveled by Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:16:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 The Minute I Heard My First Love Story http://wordsofapoet.com/2009/06/06/the-minute-i-heard-my-first-love-story/ http://wordsofapoet.com/2009/06/06/the-minute-i-heard-my-first-love-story/#comments Sat, 06 Jun 2009 23:41:30 +0000 Matthew Henrickson http://wordsofapoet.com/?p=225 This is one of my favorite Rumi poems from his book the Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing.

The minute I heard my first love story
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.

Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere.
They’re in each other all along.

by Maulana Jalalu’ddin Rumi

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